The preceding three chapters have been concerned
solely with an analysis of the structure of employment
conditions under the codes. The scope of the analysis has
not extended, except by inference, to the administrative
problems involved. Nor has it covered the operative economic consequences in relation to the recovery objective.1
At this point a brief review of the analysis is expedient.
This will be followed by a consideration of continuing
problems both of administration and public policy.

STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITIES

In order to facilitate exposition, the earlier discussion
has taken up separately the minimum wage structure,
the higher brackets structure, and the hours structure.
Operatively, of course, these are not separate and distinct; they are inter-woven and interacting parts of the
hundreds of separate code structures of employment conditions. Furthermore, these total structures are not abstract entities; they are concrete instruments that are to
be administered in the work-a-day business world, and
their administration is to be supervised by another complex of governmental and quasi-governmental agencies.

In Chapter XII, it was seen that the minimum wage
structure is an outgrowth of a wish to see every worker
receive a living wage, and of a vaguely defined idea of
the role of wage protection in stimulating business recovery. This outgrowth might have been simple, but it
became very complex. In a situation where there was
little objective information and less defined policy, there

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